Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-02-25

enthusiasm as any. He said among other
things
GOV. FORAKER.
Great problems concern the American
people-what shall be the solution of the
labor question, of the liquor question, OF
the silver question, of the Chinese queS-
ton, of the Canadian fisheries question
and of the all-important question of re
form in our municipal governments. The
republican party must answer. Let it an
Swer in the future as ever in the past.
Let it be guided by morality and patriot
ism, and then it can go forward with fear
less aggressiveness to the sure accom-
plishment of an acceptable work To
these ends it must, however, have Il bold,
fearless, untlinching and positive leader
ship. 1t must be distinctly understood
that we favor a free ballot and fair
count, and that we are not afraid to say
So 1t must be proclaimed with equal EN-
phasis that we favor a protective tariff for
the sake of protection. In short it must
be made plain that we think more of the
United States of America than we do of
Great Britain or any other power, and
that we intend to develop our resources
and multiply our industries, enlarge our
navy and fortify our seacoasts until we
are independent OF every other nation on
the face of the earth and able to defend
ourselves against all the world.
RepubliCanism never gained anything
promising attitudes and it will never gain
anything that way in the future We are
too old-have had too much experience,
fought too many fights and stand charged
with too many grave responsibilities to
waste time listening to impracticable
teachings about theoretical isms Let the
long haired men and short haired
women 90 to the rear while the
lines move on to victory-and as we
60 forward let every member of the party
defiantly rejoice that he belongs to party
which to-day as in the past represents the
tions and aspirations of the American
people.
SENATOR ELECT HIsCOCK.
The new Senator-elect of New York
Mr. HisCock, said
Our treasury is full. And | deny that
taxation here is a burden upon the people
Exclusive of taxes collected from tobac-
co, beer, sugars and luXuries of wealth,
the government raises mot to exceed forty
millions of dollars, from what may be
characterized as the necessities, convent |
ences and comforts of life from those ar
ticles that enter into daily use, with all
classes of people-the poor and the rich |
alike This tritlng amount is all there is |
of it. Tritling, | have properly charac-
terized it, when we understand that it is |
paid by nearly 60 millions of people and |
of the country, with an annual product of
more than six thousand millions of dol |
lars. | say, place our ships upon the |
seas let the general government foster
our merchant marine so that lines of trans
portation shall be established with all the
ports of the world where they will buy or
have goods to sell, and put an end to the
necessity of transporting our products i'll
foreign bottoms. Build a navy to defend |
our commerce and command respect for
our nationality and flag wherever we trade
and ii floats. Fortify our coasts and our
ports and no longer permit them to re
main an easy prey to the weak and the |
contempt of the world. So maintain our |
navy and our coast defences AS to COM
mand respect abroad. | believe that the |
people are in favor of this, and that the
republican party has made no mistake in |
contending for it. The money it will cost |
for labor and material will be paid to our |
own people and will remain here in the |
country. Our industries will be stimula-
ted, our products increased, our people !
will be employed and better market af |
forded 10 that great foundation industry
of our country-agricultur
GOV. oGLEsBY.
Gov. Oglesby of Illinois said
The republican party needed brief rest |
and was now taking it, to reflect over the
growth for the last quarter century OF the
grand old party. They had compressed |
the work of several centuries into brief |
20 years and had won the rest they are
now enjoying. Two years mole of it until |
the people will see and feel mark my |
words, that the four years was rest enough. |
Put bold, courageous men like Foraker on |
the ticket in 1855, and all hell and the |
democratic party cannot keep the repub
llcan party out of control. Long APP |
plause. He bid his hearers not to be too
anxious to dive behind earthworks and |
not to worry about the seacoast defenses,
but to remember that there were 10000 |
600 people out West who would see to it |
that the East was not injured.
HON. CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw.
Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew responded to
the toast of young Men in Politics."
The speech was i'll the usual happy vein |
of the orator, and kept his listeners con
tinuously between laugh and cheer. |
He said among other things youth is |
purely relative quantity, and governed
not by years, but by grip. The young
men of the country look forward and look
backward in selecting their political or
ganization and fixing their political status.
There are crises in the history of every
great people when conservatism is treas
on, when old lines are the walls of dun
geon, when fidelity to ancient orthodoxy
and ancient aXioms commits man to the
processes OF the inqlisltiOn that grindS
out his spirit" But men of the present
cannot live upon memories, however in
spring. The party must be vigorous, ag-
gressive, and courageous. Living issues
are constantly arising and must be CRAP
pied with and decided The party that
shows fight and patriotism will win the
young men. Therefore let the course of
the republican party be onward and up
ward henceforth and forever"
The great problem of the day was the
difficulty between the capitalist and the
laborer. II was more than match for
the party in power and he wanted to see
four years of republican rule again, so
that there would be a final adjustment
and an everlasting ending of strikes, mobs,
and riots. The party in power had done
nothing to settle the great uprising of
labor that had been going on for month
or more, and probably would do nothing.
If satisfactory settlement was made, it
would have to be obtained without the aid
of the government. These misunder-
standings would break out afresh until
something was done to bring about more
wholesome relations, and the proper
movement must come from the head of
the nation before serious consequences re